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I will veto any tax increase.
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
How can you veto an idea you haven't heard?
I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.
It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.
If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.
They called me Veto Corleone. Because I vetoed 2,500 separate line-items in the budget.
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
If you vote against the Defense Authorization Act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.
Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.
I cannot support an indefinite backstop arrangement where the E.U. holds a veto over our ability to exit.
We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.
While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea.
As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.
Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.
I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.
My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.
I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.
I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO.
If government is so keen to let local people have a veto in stopping wind farms, why does it not allow local people to say no to fracking?
The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
I've made a commitment that any tax increase, I'm going to veto. It's the worst thing we could do. We have an amount of money to spend. That's it.
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which I'll pay the price.
To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that I haven't read - I don't think is good policy for any chief executive.
In order to build anything from factories to schools to hospitals, one must jump through a series of regulatory hoops, giving EPA veto power over any major projects.
When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists urged him to veto it. Tragically, the president ignored their pleas.
I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.
Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.
When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going to get the opportunity to laugh at.
No self-respecting country - especially one with our clout and proud history - should sign up to a proposal that surrenders the power to veto our foreign and trade policy to another entity.
The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented.
And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.
By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
The Clean Water Act wasn't designed to allow states to drag out decisions for years or use their Section 401 authority to veto projects of national significance when the projects wouldn't impact water quality.
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn't eat there anymore. As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.
Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.
Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.
The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.
I think if you hearken back to partial-birth abortion... everybody said, you know, it's not constitutional. It can't pass; it can't go anywhere, and it took time to do that, and it even had to succeed a presidential veto. But it eventually did.